Teacher travel (1)

Jennette Arnold: How will you ensure that all teachers can travel to school safely without having to resort to taking the car, which would harm your aims on air pollution and active travel?

The Mayor: Prior to the restart of schools this September, Transport for London (TfL) engaged with schools across the capital to ensure that all pupils and teachers were aware of TfL’s latest travel advice. In summary, this encouraged people to walk or cycle to school and, if they used public transport, to ensure they wore a face covering and understood that their journey could take longer than before the pandemic.
As part of my Streetspace programme, TfL has introduced over 60 kilometres of temporary cycle lanes and is accelerating improvements to existing routes. TfL has also widened pavements and funded the delivery of over 400 School Streets. On the bus network, over 230 additional buses are running during the school peaks and this, along with the prioritisation of some buses on key routes for school travel, is helping free up space for adults on other services.
I want to ensure that the large increases in walking and cycling trips that we have seen during the lockdown continue. These help guard against a car-led recovery and are good for the health, environment and safety of London.

TfL contract for extension of the Ultra Low Emission Zone

Caroline Pidgeon: While accepting the need for some redactions, will you publish the contract with Capita for the enforcement of the extension of the Ultra Low Emission Zone?

The Mayor: At Mayor’s Question time on 17 September 2020, I committed to write to you regarding publication of the contract Transport for London signed with Capita for the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) expansion.
I can confirm that the Capita delivery of the ULEZ expansion was achieved through a combination of a specific variation to and the exercising of an existing option to extend their current contract.The existing contract was published following its original award and an updated version, incorporating the changes arising from the ULEZ expansion variation and extension, will be published in the coming weeks once final legal agreement has been reached with Capita.

Santander Cycle (2)

Leonie Cooper: I have received many requests for new Santander cycle racks to be installed in the south and west of Wandsworth, and across Merton. Are any more installations planned in my constituency?

The Mayor: The Santander Cycle Hire scheme has been extremely popular over recent months and because of this Transport for London is interested in talking to Boroughs around options for extensions to the scheme, but it will need a funding solution to do so, including local funding solutions. At present there is insufficient clarity on funding from government to enable such discussions on expansion.

TfL Advertising (1)

Susan Hall: At the Budget & Performance Committee on 1 October, TfL said that advertising revenue had "collapsed" in light of Covid-19. Can you provide any specific financial information - Q1 figures, for example - which demonstrate this?

The Mayor: Out of Home advertising revenues has been significantly hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Figures published by the Advertising Association/WARC show that across the entire Out of Home advertising industry in the UK revenues were forecast to fall by 70.4 per cent in Q1 2020/21 in comparison to the same period in 2019/20.
The pandemic and interventions to prevent the spread of the virus resulted in a severe decline in passenger numbers on TfL services, and at the peak of the lockdown passenger numbers were as low as five per cent on the Underground. This has a greater impact on TfL’s advertising revenues as its passengers are the audience. As outlined in the Q1 Financial Performance Report issued by Transport for London, revenues for Q1 2020/21 were £3m versus a Q1 performance in 2019/20 of £33m, a reduction year on year of 91 per cent.
TfL continues to work closely with its media partners to mitigate the significant impacts on revenue.

Healthy Streets Programme

Caroline Pidgeon: In answer to question 2020/2550 in response to my request to list all TfL schemes under the Healthy Streets Programme that are currently paused, you instead published a list of Healthy Streets schemes which TfL intends to progress with. As requested in question 2020/2550 please list the schemes under the TfL Healthy Streets Programme that are currently paused.

The Mayor: Please see below the list of my Healthy Streets schemes that are currently paused. Subject to the outcomes of the funding negotiations with the Government, TfL will be looking to restart as many of these projects as possible given the financial constraints.
It should also be noted that some of the paused cycle routes, including Cycling Future Routes 3, 11 and 23, have been progressed as temporary measures under the Streetspace programme.
List of Healthy Streets Schemes currently paused
Healthy Streets
Scheme
Healthy Streets
LIP Funded Corridors
Healthy Streets
Mini Hollands
Healthy Streets
Cycle Network Development- Borough Roads
Healthy Streets
Cycle Quietways
Healthy Streets
Borough Cycling Support
Healthy Streets
Crossrail Complementary Measures
Healthy Streets
Liveable neighbourhoods
Healthy Streets
Cycling Future Route 15
Healthy Streets
Cycling Future Route 23
Healthy Streets
Safer Junction -Camden Road/Camden Street
Healthy Streets
Holloway Road/ Drayton Park
Healthy Streets
Cycleways Rebranding
Healthy Streets
Cycling Future Route 12 Phase 2
Healthy Streets
Angel Junction
Healthy Streets
Bus Growth
Healthy Streets
A23/A232 Fiveways Croydon
Healthy Streets
King's Cross
Healthy Streets
Brent Cross Redevelopment
Healthy Streets
Healthy Streets Supporting Measures
Healthy Streets
Bow Vision Interchange
Healthy Streets
Stoke Newington Gyratory
Healthy Streets
Camden High Street Cobden To Britannia
Healthy Streets
East Sheen Road Safety/Streetscape Improvements
Healthy Streets
Cycle Network Development TLRN
Healthy Streets
Cycle Quietways TLRN
Healthy Streets
Cycle Parking
Healthy Streets
Old Oak Common Links
Healthy Streets
A2 Old Kent Road
Healthy Streets
Pedestrian Town Centre Tooting
Healthy Streets
A312 Healthy Streets Improvements
Healthy Streets
Infrastructure to support CLBG and TCs
Healthy Streets
A316 Manor Circus Crossings
Healthy Streets
A24 Morden Town Centre
Healthy Streets
A4 West Cromwell Road j/w Warwick Road
Healthy Streets
Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf Crossing
Healthy Streets
Surface Transport- High Speed 2
Healthy Streets
Parliament Square Streetscape Project
Healthy Streets
City of London Tudor Street
Healthy Streets
Future Cycling Future Routes
Healthy Streets
Cycling Future Route 11
Healthy Streets
Cycling Future Route 2
Healthy Streets
Cycling Future Route 3
Healthy Streets
Cycling Future Route 10
Healthy Streets
Cycling Future Route 12 Phase 1

Bike crime

Tony Devenish: Please read FT House and Home (1/2 August) “You’ve bought a bike- here’s how to keep it”. With 21,000 bikes reported stolen in the year up to the June 2020 do you agree that bike theft or vandalism can be a disincentive to increased cycling? Will you consider using the TFL, and Met Police bricks and mortar and social media assets to communicate the seven bike security tips in this article? Can we expect to see a pilot on our tubes or buses online in the next few months?

The Mayor: More people are cycling around London than ever before and Transport for London (TfL) is doing all it can to support them. Through my Streetspace for London plan, TfL is creating more space on streets so people can walk or cycle and practice social distancing. As of mid-October, TfL and the boroughs had worked together to deliver 60 kms of new or improved cycle lanes, with another 30 kms currently in construction to be added to its ever-expanding Cycleway network. It is equally important that people are confident that they can store their bikes safely. This is why TfL has created over 1,500 cycle parking spaces in under three months across London, focused around busy areas like high streets and transport hubs. TfL has also been promoting safe locking practices by placing posters in new cycle hangars and some stations, as well as emails and communications through its partner channels.
The Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS) Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) targets offences that will cause the highest harm to Londoners. The MPS continue to work closely with Transport for London (TfL) will to tackle bike theft fairly and proportionately, to lessen the risk of crime deterring people from cycling.